Software Engineer, Topsort

• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience doing software development
• You do well-solving problems and making others understand you clearly
• You are able to write professional-grade code that is easy to understand and modify, choosing appropriate technologies to achieve your objectives
• You are able to express yourself with precision, transparency, and honesty (ex: "I ignored you because I thought it was better to do it my way, sorry, I will correct this next time"). This applies both to verbal communication and text communication tools like Slack, Notion, and Medium
• You are willing to learn and to do things outside of your direct scope - like everyone else on the team

Desirable

• As a Software Engineer at Topsort you will build back-end services, APIs, and front-end experiences to support our mission: democratizing auction-based infrastructure for all marketplaces
• Our first product is sponsored listings as a service
• We automate and simplify auctions so that any advertiser, especially small ones, can compete successfully
• It’s not easy. We use our game and auction theory expertise; implement real-time, scalable, always-available systems; and build an intuitive, easy-to-use UI for managing campaigns
• We’re looking for people who want to build successful products, are comfortable with data, like learning new technologies, can handle many moving parts, and enjoy wearing different hats -- we’re a start-up!
• We’re developing:
• Scalable, fast services for running auctions
• Financial systems -- ledgers, payments, invoicing, billing, etc
• Simple machinery for small vendors to optimize their advertising spend
• Big data models for predicting customer behavior
• Tools for our product and customer teams that streamline marketplace integration
• You will collaborate with the development team to build a software architecture that allows for orderly code that is easy to work with
• You'll analyze and implement technological solutions in the development of Topsort products
• You will get the opportunity to improve customer experience
• You'll propose process or technology improvements to implement